Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) announced that nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. This prestigious award recognizes family farmers who demonstrate exceptional environmental stewardship in poultry and egg production. The deadline for nominations is Oct.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

One of the most common questions people ask me is “I live in an apartment; is there anything I can do to change the food system, to change the ecology, practically, to change nutrition and livestock abuse?” Nothing could be further from the truth. Here is an idea that someone with no land, in New York City, can do that has many benefits.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The production facilities are also producing high protein animal feed and distillers corn oil which goes into poultry feed market or renewable diesel and biodiesel. He further outlined that the ethanol industry consumed about 5.5 billion bushels of corn this year, that’s about ⅓ of overall corn produced in the country.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Failure to robustly fund public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems stifles scientific and technical innovation and leaves US farmers and ranchers unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JUNE 2, 2021

As anyone watching the news knows by now, Sunday a ransomware attack on the world's largest meat and poultry processor, JBS, closed 6 processing plants in the U.S. Resiliency is not just about ecology; it's about access. What's the right size for a food and beverage company?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial-scale monoculture. (

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be. 12103, 7124).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

As many parts of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital to dedicate funding to AMMP technologies to ensure that instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as can be.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The resilience centers would focus on specific areas of ecological improvement ranging from minimizing or abating adverse climate and environmental impacts to reducing dependency on fossil fuels. Facilitating the adoption of year-round living cover and perennial production systems would also be part of their mandate.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial agriculture (Sec. 12113).

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

poultry production. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. poultry industry, resulting in the death of over 90 million domestic birds since January 2022, when the virus was first detected in wild ducks in the Carolinas and then soon after in poultry.

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Civil Eats

JULY 24, 2023

Ethan Duvall, a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, wanted to find out how Washington dairy farmers feel about the eagles that swarm their fields each winter. If you’re in a different agricultural setting with a mix of dairy farms and poultry farms, that adds complexity.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

The Soil Association’s report, Peak Poultry , details that roughly three million tonnes of soya are imported into the UK each year, and most of it is bought by chicken producers to fatten chickens. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 27, 2024

On one hand, the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the Act encourages NRCS “… to hire staff fluent in non-English languages, experienced in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)-based practices, and familiar with a range of operation types and business structures.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Good Meat Project , a national nonprofit, is on a mission to catalyze marketplace innovation, connection, and education across the meat supply chain in order to increase the economic viability and ecological impact of livestock farmers who invest in healthy land, animals, and people.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. Swiftly, an era of CAFOs began in poultry production, which still reigns today. And she could.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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Civil Eats

JULY 11, 2023

While the delay happened in part for some legitimate ecological reasons, including the size of the crabs and the presence of water-borne toxins, the environmental issues might be masking something else. Small crab fishermen who make a living catching and selling live crabs say that one corporation’s outsized power is also to blame.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Ecological farmers may not agree on everything, but one thing we all agree on these days are these 5 essential elements: 1. The devastation among Florida’s orange groves and the diseases attacking coffee trees are symptomatic of one thing: violating all of the above ecological pillars. Let’s go to the heart of the matter.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Meanwhile, the historic blessing of manure becomes a liability, clogging our streams and poisoning our groundwater because it’s too much in one place for our ecological womb to metabolize.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

This rule from USDA is a landmark moment for poultry growers in their long struggle for basic fairness in their contracts,” Edna Rodriguez, RAFI’s executive director, said in a press release. ” Read More: Just a Few Companies Control the Meat Industry. Could a New Approach to Monopolies Level the Playing Field?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5

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